Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you . |
| 2 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 3 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 4 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
| 5 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 6 | In the end , Shane has to ride out again , despite the cries of the boy who prefers him to his father , not qualified to live in the community because of his purity and violence . |
| 7 | In this case , it seems to have been someone other than the person who was to use the manuscript who ordered it to be copied . |
| 8 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 9 | Oddly enough , I had been interested in it three or four years ago when it was on the market prior to being bought by the lady who sold it to me . |
| 10 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 11 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 12 | I eventually saw a specialist who prescribed something to ‘ kick-start ’ my periods . |
| 13 | The Queen who gave it to Andy and Fergie as a wedding present has made it clear to her advisors that the Duchess should not be forced to leave , as long as the she adheres to her agreement not to talk about the marriage break up . |
| 14 | ‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’ |
| 15 | Judge rethink : The Marquess of Blandford 's 112 day sentence over non-payment of maintenance to his wife may be cut by the judge who committed him to Pentonville on Tuesday . |
| 16 | BOXER Mike Tyson 's bid to get a new trial was thrown out of court yesterday — by the judge who sentenced him to six years for rape . |
| 17 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 18 | He started going out with the girl who introduced him to drugs in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | A drug specialist service works out a withdrawal programme with her GP who introduces her to a support group and individual counselling . |
| 20 | Ms Tierney , of Victor Paul Terrace , Edinburgh , told a fatal accident inquiry in Dunfermline yesterday : ‘ On 15 August when he complained of blinding headaches I took him to my GP who referred him to Milesmark hospital in Dunfermline with suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage . |
| 21 | Some languages have case inflections which indicate the relationship between the elements in a clause , for instance who does what to whom . |
| 22 | MY gratitude goes to a mini-cab driver who took me to an animal hospital with my sick budgerigar and then would n't accept any fare . |
| 23 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 24 | Chased by the youths , he ran across a dual carriageway and flagged down a driver who rushed him to hospital . |
| 25 | Yet the only writer who knew himself to be mortally ill and yet managed to achieve great things was Franz Kafka : ‘ It is not easy to build an oeuvre knowing that one has a revolver pointed at one 's neck . ’ |
| 26 | Now the others she 's referring to there must be God , but she can not immediately go on and so bluntly say , in the very next line anyway , you know , it was only the serpent who showed it to me , God is going to be envious of me . |
| 27 | Auntie Lou had friends in the town who asked her to tea sometimes but she never dared ask them back . |
| 28 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 29 | A gunfight that stretched from dawn until night as the group who believed themselves to be Ukrainian patriots held out , without hope of rescue or reinforcement , against the encircling advance of Moscow 's soldiers . |
| 30 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |